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The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

Benjamin E. Mays

[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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Believe May Today Tomorrow
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Capture Disaster Ideals
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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Goal Life Reaching Stars
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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Goals Dreams Lying Mind
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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Believe People White
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Communication Intelligent School
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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Battle Liberty Today
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
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Leadership Mean Motivation
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Dream Lying Stars
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Dream Reaching Goals Stars

The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

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